Tag Archives: Bloomsbury Childrens Books

Sally Kindberg and Palmers Pet Shop in Camden Town, London

Posted on February 23, 2026 by SallyK

Not far from London Zoo is the facade of what was once a famous pet shop.  It claimed Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin were its customers but who knows? Now it’s one of the ubiquitous Gail’s Cafes. I saw neither … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg and quails in space (again)

Posted on March 24, 2023 by SallyK

Thinking about quails again at the moment (as you do), and currently drawing a new story, a distraction I admit from a slowly ongoing and more complicated project. The comic strip above was part of an earlier iteration. Animal pioneers … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg’s Draw It! London and a child’s drawing

Posted on November 2, 2022 by SallyK

I do enjoy seeing how readers respond to my Draw It! books!  This sent from a young reader in New Zealand, a page from my Draw It! London book.  The young artist has obviously aimed high, hooray!

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Sally Kindberg Dinosaur Wrangling in Fitzrovia

Posted on August 15, 2022 by SallyK

  Dinosaurs extinct? Pah, nonsense!  Lots of Dinos emerged in fantastic drawings by visitors of all ages at the wondrous Pollocks Toy Museum Fitzrovia Fete on Saturday. I had some trouble with my ears, confusing cats with dinosaurs but it … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg in Cambridge: carols, the Astronomer Royal and Dan Dare

Posted on January 13, 2020 by SallyK

What do you wear when visiting an Astronomer Royal?  Star socks of course. Lovely friends Bridget Marzo and Kit Prendergast invited me to join them on Christmas Eve for a festive treat – to attend a Kings Chapel Carol service then … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg’s workshop at the Guardian’s Family Art Day

Posted on November 11, 2019 by SallyK

Great fun as always taking part in the Guardian’s annual Cartoon and Family Art Day at Kings Place in London, along with twenty or so other artists.  Children made wonderfully inventive and ghastly ScaryZines all about their own Creepy Hotel … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg’s Space Trail workshop at the Institute of Physics Family Day

Posted on August 19, 2019 by SallyK

What a fantastic day at the Institute of Physics on saturday at their Moon Adventure Family Day!  Over one hundred and seventy people came in to draw comic strips and their journeys into space, and encouraged by an army of … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg’s comic strip workshops at the Institute of Physics

Posted on August 14, 2019 by SallyK

As it’s the anniversary year of the first moon landings, the current exhibition at the Institute of Physics is all about the moon, where I ran comic strip workshops yesterday. After some live drawing all about facial expressions and using … Continue reading →

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Draw It! Swedish and Norwegian co-editions arrive

Posted on November 21, 2018 by SallyK

Some new co-editions of the first Draw It! book arrived yesterday evening – a surprise delivery.  The last co-edition was for Taiwan.  Great to see my books in all sorts of different languages. As well as in English of course! … Continue reading →

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Workshop event at Swedenborg House again

Posted on October 28, 2018 by SallyK

Another of my explore and draw events at Swedenborg House produced fine results from young visitors again.  First of all we did some warm-up drawing exercises, including drawing different facial expressions on a young Swedenborg – thanks to some brave volunteers … Continue reading →

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